stcommunities.straitstimes.com Archives - 16 March 2013, Saturday

A new exhibition from the famed Egyptian collection of the British Museum will be featured at Marina Bay Sands' ArtScience Museum from April 27. The exhibition will have more than 100 artifacts and six mummies in total. Among the artifacts is a statuette of the Egyptian god Amun-Ra in...

K-pop artist G-Dragon is coming to Singapore! As previously announced , the multi-talented singer is to embark on his first solo worldwide tour, starting in Seoul on March 30-31. Now, via Facebook , the G-Dragon 2013 World Tour: One of a Kind has confirmed a stop in Singapore. A speci...

American pop star Adam Lambert's concert in Singapore on Friday has been given an "Advisory 16 and above (some mature content)" rating by the Media Development Authority (MDA). This means the performance by the openly gay singer contains content that may not be suitable for younger au...

After two months of uncertainty over their fate, it will be business as usual for music retailer HMV's two outlets at Marina Square and [email protected] in Singapore. A Hong Kong-based private equity firm has come in to take over the ownership and management of HMV stores in Hong Kong and...

South Korean rock band CNBLUE to hold their first full-scale solo concert in Singapore It has been more than two years since their last showcase in Singapore, but South Korean rock band CNBLUE (abbreviation 'Code Name BLUE') is ready to return bigger and better. Come April, fans of th...

New York prog rockers Coheed and Cambria are coming back to Singapore on April 23. Touring in support of their two-part album, The Afterman, they will be joined by special guests Circa Survive, who are touring for their most recent album, Violent waves. The gig will be held at The Col...

For the third time in three years, the Singapore Philatelic Museum is presenting a pop culture-themed exhibition. From this Friday, the Light vs Dark Exhibition: Stamps And Collectibles will be open to the public. Inspired by the iconic movie franchise, the museum is collaborating wit...

ONE Production has released the ticket sales details for K-Pop band CNBLUE's concert in Singapore in a Facebook post . The tickets for the 2013 CNBLUE Blue Moon World Tour Live In Singapore will go on sale on Friday, March 1, 2013. Sales begin at 9AM through Sistic's website and at 10...

Irish-English singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, who had a string of chart-topping ballads in the 1970s and 1980s, is old-fashioned when it comes to writing songs. Believe it or not, the 66-year-old musician still uses old-school devices such as 1970s boomboxes and cassette tapes t...

Norah Jones' last concert in Singapore in 2003 did not leave much of an impression on her. "Yeah, I remember being there," recalls the nine-time Grammy winning singer. " I don't remember very much, I think I was very jet lagged, I didn't have any time off. So I'm excited to be there a...

Hold onto your spaghetti because an extra-terrestrial villain, "Macaroni the Merciless", is out to steal it. He is a new character created exclusively for the world's first Sesame Street indoor theme park ride that opens in Universal Studios Singapore on March 1. Universal Studios Sin...

A MUTEMATH show is never just a music performance. Crowdsurfing on an air mattress (or even better, a drum) or pounding on the keyboard while performing a handstand on it – these are just some of the on-stage antics of the outrageous four-piece US rock band. And then there’s Darren Ki...

Director Jack Neo's Ah Boys To Men 2 is now the top-grossing local movie of all time. It has earned $6.297 million as of Feb 19 and is still showing in cinemas. The second instalment of Neo's national service rites-of-passage tale beat the first part's takings of $6.213 million to bec...

Taiwanese pop idol Show Lo is quick to deny allegations that his fans are trouble- makers in the light of a recent online spat which saw Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong attacked for apparently slighting Lo. “Actually, my fans are very, very well-mannered,” the 33-year-old singer says in ...

He pioneered the local beatbox scene – using his voice to create beats, melodies and audio effects. Now, vocal percussionist Dharni (left) is making his mark internationally. The 26-year-old, whose full name is Dharni Ng, is now based in Warsaw and has just released his first recorded...

LUNA SEA THE END OF THE DREAM ASIA TOUR 2013 The Star Theatre, The Star Performing Arts Centre Last Friday It has been a long wait for fans here. Japanese rock band Luna Sea released their self-titled debut album back in 1991 and hit the height of their popularity in the late 1990s wi...

Local beatboxing pioneer Dharni Ng has released his first recorded work, C'est Dingue, available for free online. His longtime fans might be surprised to hear the tune, whose title is French for "This is crazy" - instead of featuring just beats, melodies and audio effects created by h...

The only woman to have made it to Rolling Stone magazine's list of New School Of Guitar Gods will be performing her first show in Singapore next month. Guitar maestro Kaki King, 33, known for her percussive melodies using different guitar tunings, and intricate fingerstyle technique, ...

After Singapore painter Ruben Pang made his mark in Milan with a group show last November with Italian gallery Primo Marella, he is now holding a solo exhibition in Lugano, Switzerland, this month. The choice of Europe for Pang's international solo debut comes amid buzz already buildi...

Critically acclaimed indie artists Stars are returning to Singapore to perform live with their latest tunes. The Canadian indie-rock band will perform at the Kallang Theatre on Feb 19, playing songs from their new album, The North (2012), which many music critics have lauded as a plea...

Singapore's first nominee at the Grammy awards, Arun Shenoy, is hopeful that he can bring home a trophy, despite the odds. His debut fusion-flamenco album Rumbadoodle is in the running for the Best Pop Instrumental Album accolade at the ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb 10. "I am up agai...

He thinks that the local entertainment scene has been way too stagnant by his standards. So call it a hero’s complex if you must, but Ken Lim is determined to “revive” it. The head honcho of Hype Records is convinced that the next big star will rise from the melting pot that is Asia. ...

Singapore's premier art fair, Art Stage Singapore got its groove back in the third edition. Drawing a record 40,500 visitors, up from 32,000 last year, the contemporary art fair, closed on all the right notes on Sunday. The open layout, stronger works by Asian galleries, attention to ...

Good news for CNBLUE fans (also known as BOICEs - a combination of words Blue and Voice)! Concert promoter One Production (who previously organized the concert for labelmate F.T. Island) has revealed that it will be bringing in CNBLUE's concert on April 13, 2013, at the Singapore Indo...

In a survey taken by 200 participants in Jan 2013, Sun Ho has been voted Singapore's Least Admired personality. The survey incuded both international and local personalities and was conducted by YourPersonalBrand.com, a division of BrandHub. Sun Ho, a Singapore-based singer and co-fou...

K-pop group miss A greeted fans here in a video posted on Facebook by their label Launch Group. Members Suzy, Min, Jia and Fei say hi to their Singapore fans and encourage those who have yet to purchase tickets to their Feb 16 concert at The Star Theatre to do so. miss A will be bring...

You know a band has hit it big when they embark on a world tour and CNBLUE has achieved that glory. According to a report by online K-pop news site allkpop , the group is the first Korean band to go on a world tour which will start off in Seoul in May. The band's label FNC Entertainme...

Last October, The Ataris frontman Kristopher Roe threw a fit on stage mid-concert in New Jersey, throwing his guitar at drummer Rob Felicetti before proceeding to continue the show without him. Shortly after, Felicetti quit the pop-punk band. But The Ataris look to be soldiering on we...

Singer-rapper Jay Park has his work cut out for him. He wants to show the world that there is more to Korean hip-hop than a chubby man in sunglasses pretending to ride a horse. Park, 25, does not deny that South Korean pop music has become an ironic and irresistibly catchy global phen...

He will be performing a string of his top hits including releases off his latest solo album Journey Home . Fans can also look forward to a series of fun-filled activities and interactions with Kim Jong Kook during the showcase which is scheduled to be held on the evening of Feb 22, 2013.